I agree completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomme
Then every few months I come across someone who is "old school", e.g. someone like yourself, and my faith in humankind is somewhat restored.
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I agree completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomme
Then every few months I come across someone who is "old school", e.g. someone like yourself, and my faith in humankind is somewhat restored.
Mate,
I feel sorry for you ! That sort of thing happened quite a lot to me and it resulted in me parking far away from everyone else and going shopping at off peak hours. I personally would have grabbed that kid. Parents are responsible for the acts of their children so that stupid woman should have to pay for it - in theory.
Accidents do happen and I wouldn't want to ask somebody for money because of a bloody scratch. Yet, when you get someone with that attitude you can only do the right thing, which is to make them remember and pay. I wouldn't give up pursuing her until it is sorted, otherwise they think they can continue getting away with their behaviour. I personally stopped fixing smaller things (i.e. small scratches). Let us know how you're getting on though and good luck in getting her!
That sucks man. park in the middle of 2 spaces. i do.
there are idiots everywhere, i just try not to go to the shops lol. and the reason small cars attract 4wds is because you leave all the room so they can turn into the spot easily . you have the details of the ladys car, eye for an eye.
cheers brenton
Read your insurance policy again.
The bit where is says you do not have to pay the excess if you can supply the name or registartion of the party responsible.
Now have this infont of you when you call your insurance co again. When they say excess is payable say 'hang on a sec, right here on my policy, section 4.1 paragraph 3, it says ... Now I've done my bit how about holding up your end of the agreement.' Remember it is not your responsibility to recover the damages, just to do what your policy says.
I've had 9 claims over 10 years, only once have i paid an excess. I still have rating 1.
That sucks hard :( Just thinking about that makes my blood boil.
I feel for you buddy. I had worse things happen to a new car before. My previous ride - a Mazda 3, which I'd had for under 48 hours was side swiped by some douchebag who couldnt park their car properly at Sunnybank (those who are in Brisbane are probably aware of how pathetic some of the drivers are there). I didnt witness it happen as I was inside having lunch with a few friends, but it amazes me how someone couldnt get into a park with more than half a car width's extra room (as I was parked right next to a pole with my mirrors in), still take out the front of my car.
Whoever did it had done a reasonable amount of damage that it required a whole new bumper and a support frame that held the bumper in place. Total damage bill due to some careless f*$kwit cost me $1700.
From that day on, I gave myself strict parking orders to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
I still find it amazing how people can feel morally alright about damaging someone else's property (due to their own carelessness) display not the slightest hint of apology or senserity about their own wrong doing and rather blame it on others.
If that same scenario had happened to me, I would have just keyed that woman's car and left. I wouldnt have felt morally wrong cause why should you care about her property when she clearly doesnt care about yours?
here we go... best way to avoid idiots that dont care:
Park away from where everyone else parks..
So far at my work (major shopping centre) because we look after our cars that way, 2 cars number plates have been stolen, one car totally keyed and another has had its windows smashed (break in) twice.. all in the last 3 months... You cant win..
My mum is horrible... she is getting on in age and thinks its perfectly fine to lean on cars as shes walking by... and she aint a light woman let me tell you this.. shes a typical italian woman... and i got mad at her for it... but her reply is... its ok they wont mind... stupid stupid thinking.
Meenwhile.. first day i had the car, a teenager and his gf wanted to get into my lane... but since they were besides me i had no idea they were indicating... all of a sudden... he swerves into my lane and yells out.. I NEEDED TO GET THERE YOU @#%^@#*... i race up besides him and yell at him for being a C^&t and to learn how to #@$^*&@# drive... THEN 2 days later... a mum at a computer store just reached in to grab her computer from her car... scraping her car door on mine... but she didnt care... i was livid.. said nothing because... WHAT CAN BE DONE....
Its so pathetic.... You just feel like destroying their property and then asking how they liked being the victim....
But then you would get in trouble...
Bah!
I've gotten into the habit of taking a picture of the cars parked next to me at every shopping center. I make sure it shows the space between the cars as well as their number plates and time and date.
At least the camera on my phone has some good use .... :)
It is a drastic step, but I will make anybody that dings my car pay ....:mad:
now that you mention that.I do take down number plates of cars that are parked to close to me ,thats street parking.as I noticed a huge jump in people that park using the bump method.
it did help me once when a telstra van with big metal bar reversed into me and left the scene.